Mary Pickford (1892-1979) established herself as a silent film star in the 1910s. She received an Academy Award for best actress in her first talking film, "Coquette" (1928).
Pickford, along with with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, and D. W....

The College of St. Catherine was founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. This digital colleciton includes images of students and campus buildings; graduation pictures from St. Mary’s Hospital School of...

This companion site to an exhibition in 1997 groups primary sources under themes such as patriotism, war work, spies, religion, and education. The "Griefs and Anxieties" section includes a letter from 1862 that informs a South Carolina woman of...

Civil War, 1861-1865; Women

United States -- Virginia

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